讨价还价

討價還價

tǎojià-huánjià

idiom HSK 7-9 #8,859

Meanings

1 to haggle
2 to bargain
3 to negotiate a price

Characters

to ask for; to demand

to return; to counter

Examples

在市场买东西可以讨价还价。

Zài shìchǎng mǎi dōngxi kěyǐ tǎojiàhuánjià.

You can haggle when buying things at the market.

他们讨价还价了半天才成交。

Tāmen tǎojiàhuánjià le bàntiān cái chéngjiāo.

They haggled for a long time before making the deal.

Tips

memory

讨价 (ask a price) + 还价 (counter-offer a price) = the back-and-forth of haggling.

Stroke Order

讨 tǎo

价 jià

还 hái